Monday, January 28, 2008

Last week the Independent Panel on Canada's Future Role in Afghanistan released its report. The full report is available here. The basic message? Stay the course: Canadian soldiers should stay in Afghanistan well into the future. The argument is propped up by the usual noble words—and a few ignoble graphs, two of which I've shown here.

The graph below shows Afghan's opinions about the direction in which their country is moving:

As for the second, aside from the 3D, which is quite distracting, the graph is ok. (I'm glad they didn't stack the right/wrong/mixed bars.) Mixing different data sources is perhaps problematic. So I would title it